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Navigation Act
Required all European goods bound for America or other countries to be shipped through England first. -
French and Indian War
Lasted from 1756 to 1763. It is also known as the "Seven Years War." Ended with the treaty of Paris. -
Stamp Act
British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
George III
George III became king of Britain and Ireland -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. (Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau) -
United States Constitution
A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. It was drafted by the Constitutional Convention and later supplemented by the Bill of Rights and other amendments. (Voltaire, and Rousseau) -
Bill of Rights
U.S. Bill of Rights. On September 25, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Numbers three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States (U.S.) Bill of Rights, effective December 15, 1791.
